{"id":260848,"date":"2020-09-21T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260848"},"modified":"2020-09-21T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:57:07","slug":"gov-tambuwal-lauds-buhari-on-statesmanly-call-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260848","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Tambuwal lauds Buhari on statesmanly call, directive"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tambuwal<\/p>\n

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has commended President Muhammadu Buhari, on his statesmanly call and immediate directive to agencies of government to ensure and guarantee free and fair election in Edo state.<\/p>\n

Tambuwal, in a statement in Sokoto on Saturday, said that the President deserved commendation for his appeal to all stakeholders, including politicians involved in the election to ensure a violence-free election.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201clet me begin by commending the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari for his statesmanly call and appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis, given an immediate directive to agencies of government including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and all other stakeholders involved in the Edo election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat to ensure and guarantee free and fair; and, the violence-free election in Edo state; that is very commendable of Mr President.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn that premise, I, therefore, want to lend my voice to that of Mr President and other well-meaning Nigerians; and members of the international community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is to further appeal and call on the electoral body and the security agencies; and the good people of Edo and all stakeholders involved in this very important election to continue to observe rules and regulations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tambuwal added that Nigerians were closely monitoring the ongoing exercise in Edo State.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs such, I want to appeal that nobody, individual or agency of government should tamper with the outcome and results of the election being conducted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very important so that we can have a very convincing outcome that the people of Edo have exercised their franchise without any hindrance and in a very peaceful manner,\u201d Tambuwal added.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has commended President Muhammadu Buhari, on his statesmanly call and immediate directive to agencies of government to ensure and guarantee free and fair election in Edo state. Tambuwal, in a statement in Sokoto on Saturday, said that the President deserved commendation for his appeal to all stakeholders, including politicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,41,15636,58,4058],"class_list":["post-260848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-edodecides","tag-pdp","tag-tambuwal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}